Research, clinical care, and public health interventions for emerging infections and biodefenseraise critically important ethical, legal, and social issues. The Policy, Ethics and Law (PEL) core,under the auspices of a multi-disciplinary Coordinating Committee drawn from the participatinguniversities, will invite input from Regional Center of Excellence (RCE)investigators and outsideexperts. The PEL core will address the following specific aims: 1. Identify and rank for debateand discussion the range and nature of ethical and policy issues that will be encountered whileconducting research on emerging infections and biodefense as well as issues relating to clinicalcare and public health policy; 2. Analyze and debate a selected set of the issues that posebarriers to good research, the delivery of quality clinical care and public health policy related tobiodefense and emerging diseases; 3. Provide guidance and consulting services to thoseinvolved in the Southeastern Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and EmergingDiseases (SERCEB). The Coordinating Committee will identify policy, ethical, and legal issuesarising in the research of the other cores and plan whether and how to pursue them further. Thecore will draft white papers for the RCE and for other relevant audiences. Articles may also besubmitted to medical, public health, law, or policy journals. The core's Coordinating Committeewill advise the Steering Committee for the RCE, and will respond to requests channeled throughit for advice from other sources, such as NIAID, CDC, DHHS, OHS, or other organizations. Forissues that require resources beyond those provided in this core, the Coordinating Committeemay develop, or encourage others to develop, research proposals to secure separate funding forwork growing out of the core's activities.
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